Visual Studio 2010

So I have been using VS2010 since the RC. I am now using VS2010 Professional RTM and have to say that the product has made development easier.

Microsoft must have really paid attention to the likes of JetBrains ReSharper and DevExpress CodeRush with Refactor Pro. Some of the most used functionality that was provided by those extensibilty utilities VS2010 now offers out of the box.

If you are a serious coder tho, you will still be sticking to these tools as they offer far more capabilities than what VS2010 contains.

I have found some issues with the WPF interface that just requires the good old minimize-maximise fix to restore the UI sections that need to be redrawn. My biggest annoyance is in References. In VS2008 and earlier adding a reference was a simple task and the list was presented for you to find the assembly and add. With VS2010 this process is the same but the list only contains x amount of assemblies and you have to wait for this list to be rebuilt every time you add a reference! This has really made me appreciate the recent tab on this dialog!

I attended a session with Andrew Parsons from Microsoft and he showed some interesting capabilities of the new product and I will have to check out the VS2010 tip blog once I find that url.

How are you finding using VS2010 in your daily environment?

What I Use - March 2010

This is the current software that I use. I will divide this into Personal & Work sections to separate what I have personally paid for and what my work provides (or I install on the provided resource)

PERSONAL

• Resharper 5.0
• JustCode
• Office 2010 x64
• RSS Bandit
• Firefox 3.6
• Codesmith 5.2
• NHibernate
• Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
• Window 2008 R2 with HyperV
• GNU/Linux (Fedora/Centos)
• Notepad++ 
• VMWare Workstation 7.1
• Avast Internet Security
• Malwarebytes
• SQL Server 2005/2008
• NUnit / MbUnit / Gallio Icarus
• Stardock Fences Pro
• Power ISO
• Slysoft Virtual CD

WORK

• Visual Studio 2010
• Visual Studio 2008
• AnkhSVN
• Office 2010 x32
• Codesmith 5.2 (due to my recommendations as LLBLGen was out of budget)
• NHibernate
• Visual Source Safe (trying to move to SVN for the short term, long term maybe mercurial? What do you suggest?)
• Notepad++ 
• Windows 7 x64 Enterprise
• SQL Server 2005
• Stardock Fences Free
• NUnit / MbUnit / Gallio Icarus
• Slysoft Virtual CD

Blog Started

Due to not updating my blog from several years ago, I have decided to open a new one. I will try to keep this blog about technology but every now and then something else may just creep into it!

I current have several RSS feeds into my RSS Bandit and may list some of the more important ones that I follow here